Barberis was born in Chiswick, England, in 1953 and moved to Australia in 1956. She grew up in rural Victoria and began studying ballet at the age of three, but had to give it up at the age of 19 after a bad injury. Barberis completed a Post Grad at Vic College of the Arts. After receiving the 1979 Keith and Elizabeth Murdoch Fellowship from the VCA. Barberis lived and worked in Paris for three years, came back to Australia in 1982.
Barberis married Australian sculptor Adrian Page in 1984 and in 1988 had their one child Rebekah Georgia Page. She completed an MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1994 and a Ph.D. on "Abstract and Figurative Elements of the Apocalypse and its Representations" in 2000.
She is a senior lecturer at the RMIT University School of Arts and lectures in painting in the offshore School of Art program in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Art School. She is the Founder and Director of the Global Centre for Drawing, Director of Metasenta Publications and is Co-Director of Gallery Langford120, in Melbourne, Australia. Barberis has been the International Critic for the New York-based, 'Rome Art Program' for 3 Years.
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